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Mainboard Biostar A68N-5600 standard size Mini-ITX, AMD SoC received

While some enthusiasts are awaiting the emergence of Ryzen AMD CPU with integrated GPU and motherboard Mini-ITX for this platform, the company has decided to honor the dead traditions and produce cost single-chip system five years ago.

Fee Biostar A68N-5600 is based on the SoC AMD A10-4655M, the frequency of the four cores, which reaches 2.8 GHz, with GPU Radeon HD 7620G this bundle is placed in a heat pack 25W thanks to the 32 nm fabrication process. SoC occupied cooling low profile cooler with an aluminum radiator. Installed AMD A68H chipset, two slots for RAM DDR3-1333 support strap total volume of 32 GB. Storage includes four SATA 6 GB/s standard size Mini-ITX necessitates the presence of only one PCI-e 2.0 x16, actually working in x8 mode.

Controller Realtek RTL 8111H responsible for wired networking Gigabit Ethernet, Realtek ALC887 audio codec for analog audio jacks. On the bracket there are only two USB 3.0 ports, but there are two PS/2 for old peripherals, and video outputs HDMI and VGA. To connect fans just soldered two pads. Fee Biostar A68N-5600 valued at $65.